Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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• holding that exhaustion requirement was met where Office of Professional Responsibility fully examined merits of excessive force claim and correctional officers impeded filing of grievance
• holding that exhaustion requirement was met where Office of Professional Responsibility fully examined merits of excessive force claim and correctional officers impeded filing of grievance
• concluding that exhaustion requirement was satisfied when, although, grievance was sent to the wrong office, the ultimate administrative authority fully examined the grievance on the merits
• holding that when a substantive determination has been reached at the highest level, an inmate is not required to jump through any further “administrative hoops” to get the same answer
• noting that a prisoner need only exhaust the administrative remedies “as are available”
• explaining that “excessive force is indeed a ‘prison condition’ for Section 1997e(a) purposes”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).